The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-03

Our contemporaries are very kind
and very just in their remarks con
corning the movement on the part Of
the editor o. the JOURNAL to start h
daily paper. We copy their remarks,
a. follows:
lSalin0 Republican:
The usual question a stranger asks
when coming TO Salina b.. why
don't you have a daily paper" We
take up the echo Of the same question.
Everything seems favorable for a
daily paper in SalinA, everybody
wants one started and IL il certain
that daily paper will be the pride OF
the town. But it takes q good sum of
money, and labor that no one knows
or has an idea about, except those &c
tually engaged in the business. The
question comes up, do our citizens
want one of the home papers 10 go in
10 the venture or do they want "A new
man with a new Office To come IN aud
start the enterprise? The home man
should receive encouragement and Ii
successful should have q hearty sup
port of the citizens. The printing
business in Salina Is not q SNAP" by
any means If some party wants TO
start q paper aud the home msn can
not see his way clear, let that party
buy one Of the present Oflices-any Of
them would sell under thUse circum-
stances, and not ask fancy prices"
either. That Salina Is 90 have daily,
there ia no doubt. The Republican
wants to see one started, but does not
want the business OyerdOne by new
firm starting up, terminating With
disastrous results, both 10 themselves
aud to the balance OF the Paternity,
NJ. ID. Sampson has been cOnvassing
the matter the past week, and II there
Is anything in the venture now IL the
time to act. IL there Is any one TO
start daily i'm Salina IL Is STR. SRmp-
son, having lived here many years
and being acquainted with the citi-
zens. We hope he may be able to 90
into the daily paper venture, FOR II he
does not some one else will and Il Is
our desire 10 see one start In that Will |
be beneficial to every one ia Salina.
Sdlind Herald:
Our friend Sampson is talking Of
starting q morning paper and has his |
eanvassers out soliciting business. |
With sufficient Encouragement the
paper will be started otherwise Il will /
not. The Herald desires TO say q /
word In this connection by the way |
OF encouragement to Mr.. Sampson /
and advice to business men. II will |
cost q great deal to start morning |
paper. The associated press franchise |
i TO be bought at n cost Of which will |
not be less than 5000, large additions |
have to be made 20 the Office material, |
and the expense of running a paper |
no larger than the Abilene Gazette, |
will approximate 81 900 per month. |
Unless a publisher can get this latter |
sum guaranteed, he may a. well turn |
bis business over TO the sheriff al the /
start. If the business men OF SaiinB |
want q moFning paper, they must put |
up II not, stop talking about IL. 5a-
lima needs q morning paper, but no |
man wants to venture all he Is worth |
to benefit town with no prospects ct |
profit. We have figured on the en-
teFprise time and again, but our go
Inmates OF the expenses and the pros
peetive income could never be made
10 balance. Our advice TO the bust
ness men, II they want q morning
paper, Is to make their wants known
In q more substantial manner than
they have done i'm the past.